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Vegemite Banned in the US

belinda

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belinda
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What a travesty - my favourite hangover cure - better than berroca, vegemite on toast is now banned in the US.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20623973-2,00.html

Thats the thanks you get for being part of the coaltion of the willing and for sellling off national icons like uummm vegemite to the US. Hang on you guys own it and you still ban it......
 
"The (US) Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid.''

The US was "a minor market'' for Vegemite, she said.
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I somehow think this is a good thing but, like most imported crap, just add the extra crap to make it legal and you'll be fine.

I can't imagine I'd buy it though. It sounds gross.
 
Actually, that means you Yanks who have indeed been inducted into the delights of Vegemite and similar will just have to come down and visit us here to get your fix.

Welcome!
 
Rob Lister said:
I somehow think this is a good thing but, like most imported crap, just add the extra crap to make it legal and you'll be fine.

I can't imagine I'd buy it though. It sounds gross.
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Rob- First imagine grape jelly. Now remove the sugar. OK? Now remove the grapes...Yuck!:eek:
 
steverino said:
Rob- First imagine grape jelly. Now remove the sugar. OK? Now remove the grapes...Yuck!:eek:
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Actually, it's sort of similar in colour and taste to soy sauce.

Oh I get it - it's the black colour, isn't it! :)

It's a savoury concentrated spread, for goodness' sake! To be used sparingly - the big mistake with first-time Vegemiters is laying it on the bread/toast WAY too thickly. That IS just gross. You should use just enough to colour...
 
The Painter said:
I wouldn’t even know where to buy it, and you can get just about anything here.
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As an Aussie living in the U.S I have found this to be an invaluable resource..
http://www.aussiecatalog.com
Funnily enough it has pictures of Vegemite still as the first thing you see when you open the page. But as long as they still sell Tim Tams and express ship meat pies in a cooler I will survive.
 
News flash: USFDA withdraws ban of vegemite. FDA spokesperson Walter "Nubby" Theraweski remarked in a recent press conference, "Oh, folate! We thought they said 'Foley'!"

I reckon I can sympathize with the Aussies, but I have to say, I've tried that stuff and it is downright nasty. (I love soy miso, btw -- seriously.)

But hey, I can't say we don't have some odd cuisine where I live. There are people around here who eat squirrel, possum, and kaolin.

They sell kaolin at a little store over in the next town. It's not labeled as food, but it's in those same little plastic bags with the paper tops like they sell peanuts in, and everybody knows what it's for.
 
And anyway, be of good cheer... at least you can still get a can of spotted dick.

(That's suet pudding.)

(Yes, suet -- the stuff you scrape off intestines... yeah, stuff that's too nasty to put into menudo [tripe].)
 
I think it truly is something you have to grow up with....now if you want to talk about gross disgusting food there is NO WAY IN HELL you will get me to eat a peanut butter and jam (jelly) sandwich.

As for Vegemite I agree with Zep - the biggest mistake people make is to spread it on thick. And don't forget it's the best hangover/sick stomach cure there is - I speak from extensive experience.
 
belinda said:
As for Vegemite I agree with Zep - the biggest mistake people make is to spread it on thick. And don't forget it's the best hangover/sick stomach cure there is - I speak from extensive experience.
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The biggest mistake people make is to think this crap is EDIBLE!! :eye-poppi

I have just sent a letter off to the FDA thanking them for keeping Vegepuke. . . ooooops, I mean mite, out of the US.
 
One of my roommates, from WA, said the American version wasn't very good. Stuff tasted like beef bullion to me.
 
belinda said:
if you want to talk about gross disgusting food there is NO WAY IN HELL you will get me to eat a peanut butter and jam (jelly) sandwich.
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Well, it depends. If you buy the most popular brands of peanut butter, jelly (jam and jelly aren't quite the same things here), and bread, you're getting a dose of sugar and refined carbs that could put an elephant into a coma.

Get yourself some real bread (whole grain) and real peanut butter (the stuff I buy, a store brand, has 2 ingredients -- peanuts and salt) and some home made jelly or fruit preserves from the local farmers' market, and you've got a handful of pure goodness, brother.

But yeah, how in the world anyone eats Skippy peanut butter and Welch's grape jelly on Wonder bread without puking... it's beyond me.

And don't even get me started on the pseudofood cranked out by Hostess and Little Debbie. It's like some kind of futuristic dystopia - we create stuff out of chemicals and sugar and some grain powder, color it and flavor it and texturize it so it looks and tastes and feels kinda like food, then preserve it, wrap it in plastic, and (some weeks or months later) eat it.

Then there's the whole you-really-don't-want-to-go-there world of hot dogs and sausage....

Does the phrase "whole hog" mean anything to you?
 
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